#5747: Page mappings can create duplicate pages on reinstall
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Reporter: johnjamesjacoby | Owner: johnjamesjacoby
Type: defect (bug) | Status: reopened
Priority: low | Milestone: 2.1
Component: Core | Version: 1.5
Severity: minor | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by boonebgorges):
I agree that it's annoying to fix the '-2' problem. But this situation
should almost never arise for normal users.
The situtation I'm looking to avoid is one where an existing WP website
has pages with page slugs 'groups', 'members', etc. These pages would have
regular page content, indexed by Google, etc. They decide to install
BuddyPress, and all of a sudden their content at 'groups' etc disappears
from the front end of the site. Of course, we haven't deleted anything,
but it still results in a confusing experience, and a poor first
impression of BP.
We are dealing with the choice between two fairly unpleasant experiences,
though each is definitely an edge case. My feeling is that someone who is
deleting the 'bp-pages' key from the database in order to "reinstall"
BuddyPress is going to be better prepared for a jarring experience than
the new user who has his content hijacked.
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